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March 14, 2013
By Kenneth Miller
Contributing Writer
It was the beginning of the month of March, following Black History Month when the history of Blacks is most celebrated. That fact was not lost on Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Chief Brian L. Cummings, the third Black fire chief in the history of the department, when he sat down with the Sentinel.
While the past three consecutive Black LAFD fire chiefs are a sure symbol of progress in one of the nation's largest cities, the weight of the ugly racial injustices in a department that has been marred by fiscal cuts and scandal rest squarely on the shoulders of a man who is a third generational firefighter and one who embraces such challenges.
Prior to that, there have been more than a few Black milestones in firefighter history, the first woman firefighter, Molly Williams in New York City in 1817, the first Chief, Patrick H. Raymond, was hired in 1871 in Cambridge, MA, and the legacy of Black firefighters was boosted again in 1876 when Trevor K. Hansford was hired as chief in the birth place of the Klux Klux Klan in Indianapolis.
That was quite some time ago, and although a museum documenting Black firefighters was opened in 1997 on Central Ave. in Los Angeles, a bevy of racially charged incidences have tainted the LAFD in a way that perhaps will take even more than a Black chief or time to heal.
Chief Cummings follows fellow Black chiefs Douglas Barry and Millage Peaks who were both appointed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to lead the department.
The department has come a long way from its brutal past tainted by segregation in the early 1950 and being central elements in both the Watts and Rodney King riots in 1965, and1992 respectively.
The allegations of whites feeding dog food to a fellow Black firefighter a few years ago and the diminishing number of Blacks in the department are also fresh.
However daunting the circumstances and fiscal challenges that face the department, current Chief Cummings is not just qualified, but also motivated to innovatively lead.
"With every great opportunity comes a great challenge," Cummings told the Sentinel.
Many of the challenges facing the department probably will not become clear until voters settle upon whom the next mayor of the city will be.
Nonetheless, the 31-year veteran who is the son of late retired LAFD Engineer, Lou Cummings, is willing and proven.
Since joining the department in 1980, he has been promoted to the rank of engineer in 1988, Captain I in 1993 and Captain II in 2000.
In 2003, he took command of the LAFD's Battalion 13, managing five stations in South Los Angeles and it was there he built and sustained strong relationships with various community organizations, clubs and churches, as well as with the Los Angeles Police department and Los Angeles County Fire Department.
"I want residents of our communities to feel welcome to come to a station, ask questions, take a tour and get to know our firefighters and the people who work there. It is essential for all of us to enjoy such a relationship," said Cummings.
In 2005, Cummings assumed command of the Recruit Training Section of the LAFD and during his tenure was instrumental in the development of the modular training facility located at the Frank Hotchkins Memorial Training Center while managing facilities in the San Fernando Valley, Downtown Los Angeles and San Pedro.
By 2010, he had been assigned to the Planning Section of the LAFD where he oversaw the Fire Chief's staff and assisted with management of the day-to-day functions of the LAFD. He coordinated research projects, staff studies and formulated the goals and objectives for the department.
In December of 2010, he was promoted to assistant fire chief and then chief of staff, responsible for assisting in planning and implementation of short and long range goals.
Now, that sole task of implementation belongs to him in a city with a population of close to 4 million, 40% residential, 6% industrial, 6% commercial, 17% streets, 6% public facilities and 17% open space. The assessed property value is a staggering $431.2 billion.
His annual operating budget for the fiscal year of 2011-12 was $472,597,193 and it all comes out of general budget, but the department is one of the few that contributes more to the general fund than it consumes. There are a total of 3,361 firefighters of which only 52 are female, 388 are Black while Hispanics compose 1,080, Whites 1,735, Asians 189, Filipinos 54, Native Americans 14 and other 1.
Cummings cannot specifically promote the hiring of Blacks, but he is aware of the department being just 11.2% Black and more than 50% white. Hispanics make 31.2% of the department. A native of Los Angeles who attended Loyola High School, West Los Angeles College and UCLA, Cummings said he would be encouraged to see more Blacks seeking an opportunity with the department.
"These are good jobs and outstanding careers. The men and women of our department are of the highest character and I am honored to represent them," said Cummings. The qualifications to become a firefighter are minimal: a high school diploma or G.E.D, non-smokers throughout their career and valid driver's license. Applicants must pass both a physical and written test, interview and background investigation and then endure 72 weeks of training."
Cummings encourages African American youth to get prepared to apply. The LAFD has future opportunities and needs young people in this community to see firefighting as a viable career option, he said. Once trained and accepted, applicants must adhere to the LAFD motto of "Serving with Courage, Integrity and Pride." Cummings already has adhered to this motto, and then some. He is doing great things in the department and in the community. The Black community acknowledges and supports his leadership. We salute Chief Brian Cummings for the great work he is doing at the LAFD. He is a local hero – one who shows pride in his work and who makes us proud!!!


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2nd passenger dies from train-bus crash in Evans City
John D. Burkett, 88, spent five days in trauma unit at Allegheny General Hospital
A second person has died from a deadly collision between a freight train and a small bus at a railroad crossing in Butler County last month.
John D. Burkett, 88, died Saturday from injuries he suffered in the April 26 crash in Evans City, according to his obituary on Boylan Funeral Home's website. Burkett spent five days in a trauma unit at Allegheny General Hospital before he was transferred to a hospice in Butler.
Photos: Train hits bus in Evans City
Burkett was a passenger on a Butler Area Rural Transit bus when it was struck by a train at a crossing at Maple Avenue.
Another passenger, 91-year-old Claudette Miller, was killed in the crash. The bus was carrying seniors and people with disabilities.
The driver of the bus was treated and released from Butler Memorial Hospital. Police said a sample of his blood was drawn to be tested. They are still investigating why he was stopped on the tracks.
A Harmony native, Burkett was a 1942 graduate of Zelienople High School and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
He is survived by his wife of 66 years, as well as three children, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Boylan Funeral Home on East Grandview Avenue in Zelienople.
Funeral services for Burkett will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Peter's Reformed Church on East Grandview Avenue.

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Boosting NL school spending easier said
The "special master" appointed by the state Board of Education to help New London's public schools improve stated the obvious to the Board of Education at its meeting Thursday, saying the city cannot continue to flat fund education and expect to maintain current performance, never mind hope to improve.
Steven Adamowski, a former superintendent of schools in Hartford and Norwich, well knows the special challenges confronting urban school districts. He talked in ominous terms about what it could mean if city schools do not get increased spending for the 2013-2014 school year, raising the prospects of loss of local control. The coming school year will be the fifth in a row with flat funding.
But in admonishing the school board about this "shameful distinction" and urging them to "turn things around," Mr. Adamowski was in effect chastising one of the victims of parsimonious fiscal policies. It is the school administration and the Board of Education that, year after year, have presented requests for increased spending to meet contractual obligations and inflationary costs, only to be told by the City Council to make do with existing spending levels.
Some of Mr. Adamowski's future stops need to be the mayor's office, the City Council and public forums. While the special master noted part of the school board's job is to work to persuade those in control of the purse to support public schools, it should also be part of the state's intervention policy to move this discussion to the entire community.
There are various factors for stagnant funding of New London schools. Unlike its own general government budget, in which it has to find the means to control spending, the council can dictate that the school board hold the spending line without the responsibility of figuring out how. Parents in single-family and economically struggling households, consumed with getting by, are perhaps more likely than their suburban counterparts to tolerate the spending squeeze without rising up in protest. Many middle- and upper-middle class New London families enroll their children in private or alternative schools, and so are not invested in their local schools.
The most dominating factor, however, is the continuing dependence on the municipal property tax system for paying for education. As we've noted before, New London is ill served by this tax system. With its many non-profit institutions, public housing, limited space to develop and modest commercial tax base, it is tough for New London to pay for the public services it needs. City property owners are heavily taxed and their reluctance to pay more understandable.
And therein resides one of the weaknesses of the education reform effort in Connecticut. It does many good things, including boosting early childhood education opportunities, placing a greater emphasis on reading proficiency, expands family resource centers, develops the framework for new teacher evaluation standards and provides for more aggressive state intervention in struggling districts.
But state leaders continue to avoid genuine property tax reform, tolerating a system of have and have-not communities based on the size of commercial tax bases and public service demands. Without some reform urban centers will continue to be at a disadvantage and finding the resources to adequately fund education will remain a struggle.
The Day editorial board meets regularly with political, business and community leaders and convenes weekly to formulate editorial viewpoints. It is composed of President and Publisher Tim Dwyer, Editorial Page Editor Paul Choiniere, Managing Editor Tim Cotter, Staff Writer Julia Bergman and retired deputy managing editor Lisa McGinley. However, only the publisher and editorial page editor are responsible for developing the editorial opinions. The board operates independently from the Day newsroom.
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Fred Wong, Calgary's former transit director, can vaguely recall first hearing complaints the LRTs were overcrowded.
It wasn't long into the start of his career planning CTrain frequency, in the mid-1980s.
A generation later, the LRT network has gotten longer but the trains haven't — they just got more and more packed, more people filling them at more stations.
There's a bit of transit jargon to describe what people on the south line experience in peak periods: crush loads. If you've tried to squeeze on at Anderson station at 7:30 a.m., that term may ring familiar.
More breathing room is finally on its way, with construction of the last platform extensions due to wrap this year, and new trains arriving to allow extended chains by the end of 2015.
The four-car train project has been underway since 2007. The entire west LRT line started later and finished sooner.
Expanding the whole network for bigger LRT chains, from the stations to the electrical upgrades to extra cars, has quietly totalled $300 million, according to figures Calgary Transit provided.
That's greater than the combined cost of the three newest stations on the northeast leg (Saddletowne, Martindale) and northwest (Tuscany).
"That's incredible," said southwest Coun. Diane Colley-Urquhart. She remembers the outcry about sardine trains when she first sought election in Canyon Meadows in 2000.
"It always costs more when you have to retrofit. I wish we'd have had the foresight 10 years ago to get into the four-car platforms."
Construction has taken seven years, starting downtown then extending outward to stations that kept handling passengers even while they were being upgraded. Of the 22 platform extensions outside the core, only Chinook LRT was closed for an extended period.
Calgary Transit had made provisions for longer platforms when it developed the CTrain line to launch in 1981. Edmonton built extended LRT platforms from the beginning, and now can — and sometimes does — run five-car chains to give more comfortable rides to Oilers game crowds or during the morning rush.
But look where building longer platforms and underground stations got Edmonton: it has only one train route, with one-third the ridership of Calgary's 300,000-person-a-day light rail network.
"In Calgary, we were able to to develop faster because we did it more cheaply," Wong said.
The city was still building three-car platforms as late as 2001's Fish-Creek Lacombe LRT, though all stations since were designed to handle four-car chains.
To compensate for stubbier platforms, officials have added more frequent trains, Wong said. Though they're running out of room to jam more peak-period trains onto downtown 7th Avenue.
Four-car service will give the city 33 per cent more capacity per chain. There's room to fit up to 200 people per car, said Chris Jordan, manager of strategic transit planning.
By the time a next full order of new vehicles has arrived by late 2017, the city will be able to run longer trains on three-quarters of peak period runs along the Tuscany-Somerset "red" line, he said.
That route will be Calgary Transit's focus for bigger trains, because managers deem the crunch along the south leg is turning users away.
"It's literally so full on some days that we need four-car trains to meet the latent demand," Jordan said.
Things can seem nearly as fish-can bad in the northwest, and may worsen when the Tuscany LRT opens this month. Rocky Ridge resident Garry Knipe has shifted his work day to get to Crowfoot station at 6:20 a.m., to boost his odds of getting a seat. By the time the train's closer to downtown, "I can see people struggling to get on," he said.
Knipe doesn't expect the extra room to last long once four-car trains begin next year, as more Calgarians are lured by the promise of more spacious trains.
"Even if it does get as crowded again in 18 months, perhaps two years, then you've got those extra people off the road," he said.
To Dan Furst, who boards daily at Dalhousie — second from the northwest leg's current end — longer trains aren't that necessary yet, though he's glad to see the city planning for future demand.
"It's never so uncomfortably congested that you feel like you're in Tokyo, but odds are you'll be standing for at least part of the ride," Furst said.
Wong, who retired in 2012, believes bringing in four-car service might have made sense during last decade's boom. In earlier days, the public wasn't as supportive of transit investment, so overbuilding for the network's eventual needs would have likely been a tough political sell, he said.
Many riders have argued platform extensions should have come before line extensions such as the west LRT. In 2007, that group included an occasional Herald columnist named Naheed Nenshi.
"Far better not to build the west line and invest in more buses and the immediate refurbishment of existing stations to accommodate four-car trains," he wrote.
The mayor refused an interview on the topic this week. A spokesman said Nenshi "has always thought four-car trains were important."
If there won't be much sitting room for long on four-car trains, what's on the horizon?
There's no provision for five-car service in the city's 30-year transit plan, though the city has suburban land for further platform extensions, Jordan said. The 7th Avenue blocks can't fit longer trains — some old platform blocks couldn't fit chains of four — but the eventual 8th Avenue underground line for Tuscany-Somerset will be built for longer trains.
Which means that maybe by the 2040s or 2050s, Calgary's light rail system may finally be comparable, in this regard, to Edmonton's LRT.
The cost of starting four-car LRT
$20 million: extended downtown platforms (from larger $183-million 7th Avenue refurbishment)
$112 million: other platform extensions (including the rebuilt Chinook LRT)
$68 million: electrical system upgrades for longer trains
$100 million: 30 new light rail vehicles, arriving 2015 to 2017
Total: $300 million
Last platform extensions underway: Zoo, 39th Avenue, SAIT, Banff Trail
Source: Calgary Transit


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NJIT Professor Michel Boufadel, is a co-author of a new expert report on the effects of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Mississippi Canyon-252 oil spill on ecosystem services in the Gulf of Mexico.
Entitled "An Ecosystem Services Approach to Assessing the Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico," the report, published by the National Academy of Sciences, makes the case for how and why a more resilient Gulf of Mexico ecosystem needs to be developed. Recommendations include a plea to build an infrastructure to organize and integrate data. The National Research Council prepared the report based on the committee's report. Download the report free at http://www.nap.edu. For more information, contact the Ocean Studies Board at (202) 334-2714 or visit http://dels.nas.edu/osb.
Boufadel is an expert in the field of oil spill research, especially the Deepwater Horizon blow-out. He was formerly a professor at Temple University, chairing its department of civil and environmental engineering plus directing the Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection.
A Professional Engineer and Professional Hydrologist (accredited by the American Institute of Hydrology), Boufadel is also a familiar face at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where he currently serves on the EPA Science Advisory Board for natural gas extraction from shale formations.
Boufadel's projects include floodplain delineation for Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) and checking contamination in urban streams. He was involved in the response to the DWH blowout and has received funding from the Unified Command to evaluate oil biodegradation in the Gulf of Mexico beaches following the blowout. The findings of that project can be found in the Report of the Operation Science Advisory Team, which he co-authored. He was the report's only academic.
Boufadel has more than 80 refereed articles in publications such as Nature, Geosciences, Environmental Science and Technology, and the Marine Pollution Bulletin. He also has more than 30 publications in oil spill conference proceedings including the International Oil Spill Conference and the Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Conference.
The National Academies appointed this expert committee to address this specific task requested by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Members volunteered their time for this activity. The report was peer-reviewed and the final product signed off by both the committee members and the National Academies.
|Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
New Jersey Institute of Technology


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Human embryonic stem cells purified in new, rapid technique
UCSF Pediatric cardiologist Harold S. Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D.
UCSF researchers are reporting the first success in very rapidly purifying one type of embryonic stem cell from a mix of many different types of embryonic stem cells in the culture dish. The technique, which avoids the need to genetically alter the cells to distinguish them, is a key advance, the researchers say, for obtaining the appropriate cells for repairing specific damaged tissues.
The new strategy links two existing technologies for the first time: the ability to identify specific embryonic stem cell types in a culture of different embryonic stem cells, and a way to efficiently sort them at a very high rate, a procedure known as "high throughput" processing.
"Before stem cell therapy can become routine, clinicians will need a plentiful and certain supply of pure stem cells that is capable of forming the particular tissue to be repaired, and is free of contamination by other cell types. But the goal of rapidly and safely harvesting vast numbers of a single stem cell type without altering the cell's genome has been challenging," says Harold Bernstein, MD PhD, UCSF professor of pediatrics, a member of the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute and senior author of the paper.
"Here we were able to purify one specific cell type without resorting to genetically engineering the stem cells themselves, a process that can introduce unwanted traits into the cells."
The research finding is currently published online in the journal "Stem Cells and Development," and will appear later this year in a print edition of the journal. Embryonic stem cells, which replicate indefinitely in the culture dish, are capable of forming almost any tissue in the body. Over time, they begin to specialize as specific cell types, such as cardiomyocytes of the heart or neurons of the brain. One goal for stem cell therapy is to be able to identify cells that have begun to specialize in a particular way so that they could serve as a source of cells to repair specific damaged tissues.
While embryonic stem cell cultures are made up primarily of cells that have begun to differentiate, they also include cells that remain unspecialized, and thus have the capacity to form tumors, called teratomas. Scientists have attempted to purify stem cells—whether to eliminate those with the potential to form teratomas or to isolate specific embryonic stem cell types—by using viruses to insert DNA into the stem cells' genes. This technique allows researchers to distinguish one type of cell from another, but this genetic engineering approach carries the risk of altering the natural makeup of the stem cells.
The UCSF scientists used a different strategy. They identified cells that can form teratomas by searching for a telltale snippet of DNA in the tumor cells' genes. They chemically tagged these cells without altering them, and the cells were then removed on the basis of this temporary molecular tag. They reported separating out the desired stem cells from the teratoma-forming cells at a rate of about 25,000 cells per second.
The researchers say they expect the same approach could be used to separate and purify different types of cells as they advance from the stem cell state into neurons, heart cells or any other type of tissue needed for future stem cell therapy.
"Stem cell therapy requires us to select the cells we need, to eliminate teratoma-forming cells from the desired stem cells, and to accomplish this in a high-throughput manner so that we can obtain enough cells," says Bernstein. "We show how all three goals can be accomplished at once."
"We envision this as a tool that ultimately could rapidly identify and purify many different kinds of differentiating cells on their way to becoming heart muscle or pancreas or skin cells. This approach could quickly build up a large reservoir of desired cells," he said.
The research was supported in part by the state-funded California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, or CIRM. The technique has been disclosed to the UCSF Office of Technology Management for potential licensing, as well as to CIRM.
In the technique reported, the scientists introduced into a stem cell culture a pair of DNA snippets containing part of a gene, called Oct4, which is essential to all embryonic stem cells. The gene also allows cells to form teratomas, but it is not active once a stem cell starts down the road to becoming a specialized cell type.
At one end of each snippet, the researchers attached a fluorescent protein, and, at the other end, they engineered the DNA so that it could "quench" the fluorescent light. When introduced into the cell culture, the two DNA fragments naturally sought to bind, or anneal, to similar genetic sequences in the messenger RNA, or mRNA, made by the cell's Oct4 gene. However, they could do so only if the gene was turned on, as it is in teratoma-forming cells—not in stem cells already destined to become specialized tissue.
When the two DNA snippets annealed to an Oct4 mRNA, their fluorescent proteins lit up, and a cell-sorting machine then fished out these the fluorescently tagged cells—but no others.
"The key to the process," says Bernstein, "is that the two fluorescently tipped fragments light up only when they are close to each other, and they are only close to each other when they both anneal to a target cell's Oct4 genetic sequence." If Oct4 is not active in a cell, then the two introduced DNA strands do not light up. Cells that lack a fluorescent tag can then be automatically sorted separately from the fluorescently tagged target cells.
This approach enabled the researchers to isolate the teratoma-forming cells from stem cells that were already on their way to becoming more specialized cells and thus no longer expressed the telltale Oct4 gene product. The scientists expect that other tags can be developed to separate different kinds of developing cells.
The targeted gene in the process is one that codes for the Oct4 transcription factor, which allows embryonic stem cells to remain pluripotent. The DNA snippets are called "molecular beacons," and the tagging part of the two-step strategy in which the two snippets interact is known as fluorescence-resonance energy transfer, or FRET. Molecular beacons were first described in 1998 for use in DNA sequence analysis, and cell sorters have been used for decades, but linking them represents a new technology for identifying and purifying special types of stem cells. The use of the cell sorter also allows for high throughput, or the processing and purifying a large number of special cells in a short period of time.
Lead author on the paper is Frank W. King, PhD, who was a postdoctoral fellow with Bernstein at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute when this research was done. Co-authors on the paper are Walter Liszewski, BA, and Carissa Ritner, BS, both staff research associates in the Bernstein Lab at the CVRI.
In addition to funding from CIRM, the research was supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes.
UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care.


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Polar Bear Cub Facts - Mother's Milk
For more information about polar bears and Arctic wildlife, see the new IMAX® film "To The Arctic 3D" opening in select IMAX Theatres starting April 20, 2012. "To The Arctic 3D" is a MacGillivray Freeman Film from Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Corporation. Presented by One World One Ocean Foundation.


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Florida Student Members Rally to Save College of Education
The crisis of adequately funded public education hit home recently for Student Florida Education Association Members (SFEA) who are facing the loss of their undergraduate program in education at the University of Florida in Gainesville due to budget cuts.
More than 160 students, faculty, and community members held a candlelight vigil March 4 to encourage University of Florida officials not to close the Colleges of Education and Nursing.
Those were the only two asked to outline the pros and cons of continuing their undergraduate programs, according to UWire.
University spokespeople said the college wanted to "shift toward a focus on graduate education."
Attendees holding candles listened to the state's key education leaders including Florida Education Association vice president Joanne McCall.
McCall urged students to continue their letter-writing campaign, vote, and stay active. Students created a Facebook group called "Save Undergraduate Education at UF." The group had 700 members at the time of the vigil.
SFEA president Kali Davis, to close the vigil, read a letter that first- and second-graders wrote to University of Florida President Bernie Machen. They said they would be "scared, unhappy and, maybe even frustrated" if they didn't have their interns next year. The students pleaded, "Please help us Mr. Machen! Let our interns come back next year. They mean the world to us."
Concerned students representing a variety of campus organizations formed Coalition Save our Schools aimed at fighting budget cuts on state campuses. They borrowed the idea from a successful Tennessee organizing campaign around similar issues. The coalition hopes to bridge gaps between students and labor to form a unified front in the fight for affordable public education in Florida and the nation.
Interested in helping University of Florida SFEA in their campaign? Contact Kali Davis at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Additional information:
- U. Florida considers cutting nursing, education undergrad programs | UWIRE
- Nursing and education consider pros, cons of cuts | Independent Florida Alligator
- Save Undergraduate Education at UF | Facebook


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TAKE NOTE: The Thelemic/Satanic ritual of rebirth
can be found in LIBER 44, a sacramental ritual of
Aliester Crowley known as the *Mass of the Phoenix*.
(I have written extensively about this in previous posts, especially regarding the London 2012 Olympics rituals).
I'm going to have one last stab at interpreting the very strange geodesic and esoteric alignments that seem to have been engineered into Ariana Grange's Dangerous Woman Tour concert sequence. In the past three posts I have attempted to add some context to, and to cover esoteric ground on, the seeming congruence between the Dangerous Woman Tour Manchester bombing at Grande's 44th concert since the premiere Phoenix, Arizona, concert, and the Mass of The Phoenix (LIBER 44) from Aleister Crowley's Thelemic/Satanic cult known as A∴A∴. It would seem that a Thelemic BABALON and the BEAST ritual is being invoked, related to the BREXIT divorce issued in 2016 during the 44th year of Great Britain's membership in the European Union; which commenced January 1st 1973 when Great Britain officially entered the European Communities (aka, the 'Common Market').
The 44th city of the Tour should have been London, but was replaced by Paris due to the bombing, and, as discussed, the Manchester-London-Paris-Lyon concert locations, all lie on a geodesic Great Circle line that connected Westminster Abbey with the 1066 Battle of Hastings location. I won't cover all of this ground again in this post. It has been covered thoroughly in the last three posts. The reason the coming Rome concert on June 15th 2017 seems to be connected to the Manchester bombing, is because of another uncanny geodesic alignment between the Manchester and Rome concert venues, and the landing spot in Deal, Kent, of the first Roman invasion of Britain in 55 BC, led by Julius Caesar himself, who was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate in 44BC.
This famous 55BC landing of Julius Caesar was the first epic invasion of Britain by a foreign force bringing the main continental power to blows with native Britons, whereas the next was not until 1066 AD with the invasion of the Duke of Normandy, who was a tributary lord to the King of France under the continental feudal system. Thus, the locations of Hastings, and Deal, both in Kent, have especial significance to the relationship between Britain and the City of Rome, from whence the Biblical Beast (Roman Empire followed by the Holy Roman Empire founded by Charlemagne) was enthroned as per the Book of Revelation in the Christian Holy Bible. London is the new financial centre of the world, and the European Union is a re-healed Beast of Rome. This interplay provides a solid ritual context for the second sacrifice ritual of the Dangerous Woman (Phoenix) Tour occurring in Rome; if, of course, such a Rome terror attack occurs to complement the Manchester bombing of May 22nd 2017, twenty-four days earlier.
BELOW: An aerial photograph of the Pala Lottomatica, and
the EUR Quarter of the city of Rome, Italy, where Ariana
Grande will perform the 49th concert since Phoenix, AZ.
This area of Rome was a planned section of Rome developed by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime, for the 1942 World's Fair which was cancelled due to WWII. Many references to ancient and imperial Rome were planned, such as the building of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana as a cubic Colosseum, an obelisk to Guglielmo Marconi, and a projected but not built great arch, featured in the Fair posters.
BELOW: As I have covered in many previous posts, the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies, were key Thelemic rituals outlining a coming series of planetary wide Hegelian terrorist events, all planned around occult doctrine. QEII, the 44th Monarch to 'sit on St. Edward's Chair', and Darcey Bussell, the Phoenix dancer who was in her 44th year of life at the time of her performance, were both dropped from the heavens like birds into the arena at the opening and closing ceremonies respectively; this juxtaposition was quite deliberate (read my previous posts). Also, both were identified symbolically with the 8-Pointed Star of the Babylonian goddess of 'sacred' prostitution, Ishtar, hiding in the Union Jack parachute, and in the stage-set of the closing ceremony within which Darcey danced with her four 'lovers' of flame.
BELOW VIDEO: 'Spirit of the Flame' Mass of the Phoenix
ritual performed at the Closing Ceremony of the
2012 London Summer Olympics.


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Compare cheap flights from Darwin to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines is located at the north of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. It is an island nation whose tourism value grows moderately each year. Saint Vincent covers most of the territory being the largest island while Grenadines is an archipelago consisting of 32 smaller islands cays.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines has a tropical weather with both sunny and rainy season. Rainy seasons occur during the months of May to November.
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There is a wide variety of activities you can do at St. Vincent and the Grenadines. You can enjoy the stunning views, hike the Vermont Nature Trail, relax at the beautiful beaches plenty in the island, visit tourist spots such as the Botanical Gardens, Arawak Rock Carvings, Black Point tunnel and experience the culture of the people through simply walking around and shopping.


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For our latest accomplishments, see our Annual Report or THE PROTEA, our May 2019 Newsletter.
To honor Beth, to continue her work, and to sustain her vision of global peace and understanding, a memorial fund was created by her family and friends to educate the girls from a remote rural village in NW Zambia, where Beth served in the Peace Corps. Today, going to school is the best chance Zambian women have to take control of their lives. An educated population is essential if Zambia is to combat HIV/AIDS, gender inequality, and the overwhelming problems of poverty.
Scholarship Fund
In memory of Elizabeth Bowers, and with Peace Corps' help, a scholarship fund was established for the education of Zambian women in Lumwana West in the NW Province, where Beth served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Today, with World Vision Zambia acting as agent for the Elizabeth Bowers Zambia Education Fund (EBZEF), the scholarship funds girls from Lumwana West in grades 10 through 12 and beyond for an education they would otherwise not receive.
Memorial Library
To increase literacy in Lumwana West, EBZEF worked with the Peace Corps Partnership Program to build a library/learning center next to the Lumwana West Basic School as a gift to the community from Beth. With the help of partners Books for Africa, the Caritas Foundation, World Vision US, and World Vision Zambia, EBZEF sent 22,000 volumes of books to stock the Memorial Library. The "Light and Literacy for Lumwana West" program supplied solar power for lights, computers, and communication in the Memorial Library. The "Textbooks for the Library" project is making literacy and learning available outside the classroom to Beth's Girls and to the entire community.
Secondary School
The success and momentum of Beth's memorial scholarship program clearly indicate that we must continue her efforts in Zambia. EBZEF is working to help Lumwana West build its own secondary school for the education of all children in the community.
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Click HERE to go to our Secondary School Page and learn more!
The community of Lumwana West in the Northwestern province of Zambia needs a high school! Please click HERE to view our concept paper, which provides information about the Lumwana West community, and why construction of a high school there is so important to its children and future. The children's improved health and livelihood is contingent on their education opportunity.
Help Contribute to Beth's Vision
The Elizabeth Bowers Zambia Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization. Every dollar of your support, 100% of your tax deductible donation, will go directly to Beth's Girls and their community because EBZEF's Founding Supporters pay for our overhead.
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I actually made this a few weeks ago but haven't had time to write about it. Even though fall is over, its still a cool idea.
Anyway, I have the most adorable table runner from Silly Mama Quilts that looks so cute with my spring and summer decor. But I needed a fall runner. I also knew that almost as soon as I got a fall runner made I'd need a winter one too. So I decided to kill two birds with one stone and make a reversible runner. I love it!
I had so much fun picking out the different fabrics. I bought 4 fat quarters for each side and have enough left that I could easily make a couple more.
This was my first EVER quilting experience so I'm super proud! It's far from perfect (aka straight) but I love it and how it looks with the rest of my seasonal decor!
Here is how I did it if you'd like to make one of your own.
Step 1: Gather your fabric. Like I said I used 4 fat quarters for each side with TONS left over. I decided how wide I wanted my runner (cut it about an inch wider to make room for seams) and then just vary the size of your pieces. (image a)
Step 2: Using the first side as a guide, cut your second side so that its the same size. (image b)
Step 3: Then start piecing your sides together. Just lay right sides together, stitch, and then continue. (image c) Once you have both sides done be sure to iron all your seams really well.
Step 4: I basically made mine like you would a big pillow. I put right sides together and then a piece of quilters batting below it. Then sew all around the edges leaving an opening to turn it. (image e)
Step 5: Once you have it turned, hand stitch the opening close and then press really well again. Then you can finish it by sewing a top stitch all around the runner and doing wavy lines down the body of the runner. (image f)
I just used a regular sewing machine for this with a regular foot. It was really quite easy and came together pretty quick. A great project for a first time quilter!
You should give one a try. :)


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image from musicko.com
Release date: 8 April 1977 (UK), July 1979 (US)
Tracks (UK version): (Click for codes to singles charts.) Janie Jones / Remote Control (5/27/77, --) / I'm So Bored with the U.S.A. / White Riot (3/18/77, #38 UK) / Hate & War / What's My Name / Deny * / London's Burning / Career Opportunities / Cheat * / Protex Blues * / Police and Thieves / 48 Hours * / Garageland
Tracks (US version): Clash City Rockers ** (2/17/78, #35 UK) / I'm So Bored with the U.S.A. / Remote Control (5/27/77, --) / Complete Control ** (9/16/77, #28 UK) / White Riot (3/18/77, #38 UK) / White Man in Hammersmith Palais ** (6/16/78, #32 UK) / London's Burning / I Fought the Law ** (5/11/79, #22 UK) / Janie Jones / Career Opportunities / What's My Name / Hate & War / Police and Thieves / Jail Guitar Doors ** / Garageland
* only on UK version
** only on US version
Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 1.0 world
Peak: 126 US, 12 UK
Review: The Sex Pistols' "Never Mind the Bollocks may have appeared revolutionary, but the Clash's eponymous debut album was pure, unadulterated rage and fury, fueled by passion for both rock & roll and revolution." AMG2 While The Clash "sees the band in its most primal, punk form" AMG1 and while "the cliché about punk rock was that the bands couldn't play." AMG2 However, "although they gave that illusion," AMG "unlike its punk rivals the Sex Pistols, The Clash could play, and they played hard." RV
"The charging, relentless rhythms, primitive three-chord rockers, and the poor sound quality give the album a nervy, vital energy. Joe Strummer's slurred wails perfectly compliment the edgy rock, while Mick Jones' clearer singing and charged guitar breaks make his numbers righteously anthemic." AMG2 "Despite Mickey Foote's low-key, lo-fi production, [the band] mesh and unite with a snarling ferocity and energy. Raw, bouncy edginess pours out of each song, with new hooks popping out at odd angles by the second." AMG1
"While the Pistols' music focuses on its own brand of nihilism, The Clash examines the struggles of England's streets with…wit and edge" RV and what was even considered by some to be a "proto-fascist call-to-arms." WR "This is a band not so much rebelling against a society, but trying to incite a riot in a world where 'All the power is in the hands / Of people rich enough to buy it / While we walk the street / Too chicken to even try it,' as Strummer proclaims in White Riot." RV
White Riot
"Few punk songs expressed anger quite as bracingly as 'White Riot,' I'm So Bored with the U.S.A., Career Opportunities, and London's Burning, and their power is all the more incredible today." AMG2 The first two "reflect the somewhat youthful, early quasi-political leanings of the band. Though they would come across as slightly amateurish years later, it's hard to deny their punchy charm." AMG1
The Clash, however, is about more than just punk rock. "The Clash were eager to confront the degenerating music scene as fiercely as they attacked the bourgeoisie." RV "The band isn't satisfied lingering in any one genre." AMG1 "White Man in Hammersmith Palais is the ultimate anti-punk song, which also manages to convert rock lovers into punks." RV
White Man in Hammersmith Palais
"Even at this early stage, the Clash were experimenting with reggae, most notably on…Police & Thieves, "a massively catchy take on the Junior Murvin/Lee 'Scratch' Perry song and an early signpost for the future dub/rock fusions to come on Sandinista!." AMG1
"Remote Control mixes Kinks-style fractured pop with pace changes lifted straight from Chuck Berry. Cheat sounds like the Ramones' 'Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment' given a rockabilly makeover." AMG1 Also here is "the funky singalong Protex Blue, the dark and revealing paranoia of Deny, and the short but utterly delightful 48 Hours." AMG1
Remote Control
It would be more than two years later that the U.S. version of The Clash was released. Four cuts were omitted (see track listings) in favor of post-U.K. Clash singles/B-sides, "all of which were stronger than the items they replaced." AMG2 "In a way, the U.S. edition served as an extremely early best-of," AMG1 but because these songs were "more polished and thus somewhat jarring," AMG1 "purists…most likely swear on the sonic cohesion of this U.K. edition." AMG1 No matter which way you go, though, "rock & roll is rarely as edgy, invigorating, and sonically revolutionary as The Clash." AMG2 It "didn't just help invigorate the punk scene – it was a desperate call to arms." RV
Complete Control
Clash City Rockers
Resources and Related Links:
- The Clash's DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- album page on DMDB website (even more in-depth look at album)
- AMG1 All Music Guide review of U.K. version by Tim DiGravina
- AMG2 All Music Guide review of U.S. version by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- RV The Review "100 Greatest Albums of All Time" by Clarke Speicher (October – November 2001; Vol. 128: numbers 12-23).
- WR The Wire "The 100 Most Important Records Ever Made" (June 1992: #100).


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British music icon Paul McCartney has contributed some favorite vegetarian recipes for "The Meat Free Monday Cookbook," published this month by Kyle Books.
In addition to recipes by McCartney and his daughters Stella and Mary, the book includes contributions from some of their famous friends such as Mario Batali, Woody Harrelson, Vivienne Westwood, Kevin Spacey and Pink. The McCartney family also wrote the book's introduction.
"We applaud the McCartney family's unwavering efforts to promote a healthier, more sustainable diet," said Sid Lerner, who helped found the Meatless Monday movement in 2003. "This beauty of a cookbook is truly a delicious way to help spread the global Meatless Monday movement."
"While many solutions can be quite difficult to put into practice, the idea of one meat free day per week is something that many people find do-able and something that can be achieved relatively easily," McCartney said in a statement Monday.


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Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) bestowed 127 degrees at Graduation and Ordination Ceremonies in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and New York on the Class of 2015's cadre of new Jewish professional leaders for the Reform Movement. Distinguished communal and civic leaders and alumni were awarded honorary degrees and prizes in recognition of their service to Reform congregations and North American Jewry, and in honor of their humanitarian work.
HUC-JIR is North America's first institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism.
The College-Institute awarded 127 earned degrees:
All degrees granted upon completion of all requirements.
HUC-JIR alumni were awarded honorary Doctorates of Divinity, Music, Jewish Religious Education, and Jewish Nonprofit Management, as well as the Graduate Medallion, in recognition of their 25 years of distinguished professional service:
Rabbinical Alumni – Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa
Rabbi Joshua M. Aaronson
Rabbi Jordan D. Cohen, RJE
Rabbi Paul Frederick Cohen*
Rabbi Matthew S. Cutler
Rabbi David F. Edleson
Rabbi Edward G. Elkin
Rabbi Nancy Flam
Rabbi Carla Freedman*
Rabbi Susan Freeman
Rabbi Mark Glickman*
Rabbi Sidney Michael Helbraun*
Rabbi Nancy Kasten
Rabbi Sandford R. Kopnick*
Rabbi David A. Lyon*
Rabbi Gary A. Mazo*
Rabbi Rachel S. Mikva, Ph.D.*
Rabbi Eric M. Polokoff
Rabbi Cheryl Rosenstein
Rabbi Douglas Sagal
Rabbi Amy M. Schwartzman
Michal Shekel
Rabbi Ron Stern
Rabbi Daniel Swartz*
Rabbi Betsy Torop*
Rabbi Michael Torop*
Rabbi Nancy Esther Wechsler-Azen
Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan
Rabbi David Sheldon Woznica
*Awarded at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati Founders' Day on March 25, 2015
Cantorial Alumni – Doctor of Music, honoris causa
Cantor Stuart Binder
Cantor Janece Erman Cohen
Cantor Karen Webber Gilat
Cantor Naomi Hirsch
Cantor Sandra Sherry-Pilatsky
Cantor Gershon Silins
Cantor Pamela Kordan Trimble
Jewish Religious Education Alumni - Doctor of Jewish Religious Education, honoris causa
Dina L. Backer, RJE
Mindy B. Davids, RJE
Harriet M. Levine, RJE
Holly A. Michelson, RJE
Rabbi Paul Sidlofsky, RJE
Jewish Nonprofit Management Alumni – Doctor of Jewish Nonprofit Management, honoris causa
Lori Marx-Rubiner
School of Graduate Studies Medallion
John C. Reeves, Ph.D.
Thursday, April 30, 2015 | 11 Iyar 5775 | 4 pm
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York | 10 East 66th Street, New York
The Dr. Bernard Heller Prize was presented to:
Menachem Rosensaft, Founding Chairman, International Network of Children of Jewish Survivors; Senior Vice President, American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants
The Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, was presented to:
Adele Berlin, Ph.D., Robert H. Smith Professor of Biblical Studies Emerita, University of Maryland
Irwin Engelman, Immediate Past Chairman, Board of Governors, HUC-JIR
Jonathan D. Sarna, Ph.D., Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor and Director, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program, Brandeis University, and Graduation Speaker - Read his address >
A Certificate of Recognition was presented to:
Rabbi Nancy H. Wiener, D.Min., Dr. Paul and Trudy Steinberg Chair in Human Relations and Founding Director, Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling, HUC-JIR
The Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Care and Counseling was presented to the following 4 students:
Leah Cohen
Audrey Beth Halpern
Galina Makaveyev
Benjamin U. Uzuegbunam
The Master of Arts in Jewish Nonprofit Management was presented to the following student:
Sarah Rachel Magida
The Master of Sacred Music was presented to the following 8 students:
Laura Paige Breznick
Nancy Beth Hoffman Dubin
Kenneth Jay Feibush
Emma Rose Goldin
Vladimir Lapin
Lauren Beth Levy
Jay O'Brien
Inbal Sharett-Singer
The Master of Arts in Hebrew Literature was presented to the following 10 students:
Nicole Auerbach
Adam William Cohen Lutz
Sarah R. Marion
Daniel Harrison Reiser
Benjamin Ross
Samantha Ashley Shabman
Rachel L. Silverstein
Toba Leah Schaller
Stefan Tiwy
Andrew Trief
The Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters will be presented to the following student:
Andi L. Feldman
Our gratitude to Morris L. Kramer for generously sponsoring the reception immediately following the Graduation Ceremony
Sunday, May 3, 2015 | 14 Iyar 5775 | 9 am
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York | Fifth Avenue at 65th Street, New York
Ordination Speakers:
Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller, Professor of Cantorial Arts, HUC-JIR, and Rabbi Lester Bronstein, Bet Am Shalom Synagogue of White Plains - Read their Address >
The Roger E. Joseph Prize was presented to:
Rear Admiral R. Timothy Ziemer, President's Malaria Initiative Coordinator
The following 6 students were ordained as Cantors:
Benjamyn Samuel Ellerin
Susan Lewis Friedman
Rayna Dushman Green
Sara Alexis Hass
Amanda Gail Kleinman
Inbal Sharett-Singer
The following 11 students were ordained as Rabbis:
Ryan Eric Daniels
Daniel Beren Fliegel
Elizabeth P.G. Hirsch
Alexandra Rachel Klein
Susan Amy Landau
Samantha Michelle Natov
April Andrea Peters
Alexis Ann Pinsky
Yael Rooks Rapport
Carlie Nicole Weisbrod Daniels
Greg D. Weitzman
Our thanks to the Joseph Prize Endowment and the Joseph Family for their support of Ordination in New York
Sunday, May 17, 2015 | 28 Iyar 5775 | 10 am
Temple Israel of Hollywood | 7300 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
Ordination Speaker:
Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D., President, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion - Read his address >
The following 12 students were ordained as Rabbis:
Courtney Leigh Miller Berman
Allison Dorie Fischman
Amanda Beth Greene
Rachel Kaplan Marks
Molly Beth Plotnik
Lara Leigh Pullan Regev
Jason Samuel Rosner
Gavi S. Ruit
Todd Harris Silverman
Samuel Louis Spector
Beni Wajnberg
Bess Bridget Wohlner
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Dorothy Corwin Ordination Endowment Fund
Monday, May 18, 2015 | 29 Iyar 5775 | 7 pm
Temple Israel of Hollywood | 7300 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
The Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, was presented to:
The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella, Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
The Certificate of Recognition was presented to:
Richard Siegel, Graduation Speaker; Director, Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management - Read his address >
The Master of Arts in Jewish Nonprofit Management was presented to the following 7 students:
Alexandra Faye Biener
Ted Dreier
Michele Goldfarb-Shapiro
Natalie Paige Horwitz
Emily St. Lifer
Jeremy Micah Ragent
Mariela N. Socolovsky
The Master of Arts in Jewish Education was presented to the following 12 students:
Matti Emily Barzilai
Nicole Frances Berne
Jessica Ilana Bram
Ted Dreier
Ariel Lev Feinstein
Jeremy Gimbel
Abram Ezra Goodstein
Natalie Paige Horwitz
Lenette J. Herzog
Rachel Glen Wexler Mylan
Stacy Lynn Petersohn
Todd William Zinn
The Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters was presented to the following 8 students:
Emily Beth Hyatt Cohen
Michael Geoffrey Cohen
Benjamin Fried
Sarah Batya Joselow
Alexander M. Kress
Lori Fran Levine
Abigail Mollie Phelps
Jeffrey Mark Stombaugh
Saturday, May 30, 2015 | 12 Sivan 5775 | 9 am
Plum Street Temple | 720 Plum Street, Cincinnati
Ordination Speaker:
Rabbi David Saperstein, J.D., U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
The following 9 students were ordained as Rabbis:
Aryeh E. Ballaban
Dana Andreana Benson
Leah Alexandra Citrin
Nathan George Farb
Michael E. Harvey
Rachael Elyssa Jackson
Frederick Alan Kamil
Ariel Gilad Naveh
Marina Alayna Tecktiel Yergin
Sunday, May 31, 2015 | 13 Sivan 5775 | 2 pm
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel | 3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati
Graduation Speaker:
Joan Pines, Chair, Central Region Board of Overseers; Member, Board of Governors Read her address >
The Doctor of Philosophy in Judaic, Hebraic, and Cognate Studies were presented to the following 4 students:
The Master of Arts in Jewish Studies was presented to the following student:
Brian James Sullivan
The Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters was presented to the following 8 students:
Pauline Joanne Berg
Michael Elliott Danziger
Marc Eric Ekstrand
Rebecca Ratner Kamil
Brian T. Nelson
Tina M. Sobo
Jessica Blair Wainer
Marina Alayna Tecktiel Yergin


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Real Money readers have often heard me refer to investing in quality, attractively priced businesses as the holy grail to investment. The economy doesn't matter, we are quick to say, if one invests in a quality business that's selling at an attractive price. Just buy a quality, attractively priced business, Warren Buffett preaches, and let the upside take care of itself.
So what does a quality, attractively priced business look like? It looks like Gentex (GNTX), a leading producer of electronic products for the automotive industry as well as a maker of fire-protection products. Shares in Gentex are currently fetching $17.75, off from a 52-week high of $32. The market is currently valuing Gentex at $2.5 billion, or an enterprise value of $2.1 billion when you account for the $400 million in cash that's on the company's debt-free balance sheet. Let's see how Gentex fulfills the value investor's two conditions of quality and an attractive valuation.
Gentex's boilerplate description is actually misleading, as it sounds as if Gentex makes dozens of products when in fact the company has three product lines: interior and exterior auto-dimming rearview mirrors for automobiles, fire-protection products for commercial customers (namely smoke alarms) and dimmable aircraft windows. Currently, rearview mirrors account for 98% of revenue. Where Gentex stands out is that it's the innovator in the marketplace. It's not the company that is making the basic rearview mirror and hoping to hold on to a shrinking part of the market. Of Gentex's 3,700 employees, 20% are focused on research and development.
In 2011, Gentex sold 88% of the auto-dimming mirrors to more than 30 automotive customers in 25 countries. Gentex estimates that there are 76 million light vehicles worldwide and that over the next decade, 45% of those vehicles will be equipped with auto-dimming rearview mirrors. The company equates that to a $3 billion market potential, assuming $100 worth of mirrors per vehicle.
In addition to the future market potential, Gentex has a cumulative installed base of 193 million units. The biggest value proposition of auto-dimming mirrors is safety, and these mirrors have long been endorsed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Insurance companies love these mirrors, and because they constitute a very small portion of a vehicle's overall component cost, these mirrors are likely to be part of more vehicles going forward.
The other tailwind is that new car sales appear to continue trending higher. Used cars are older than they have been in many years, and that provides a catalyst for new vehicle sales. So making a bet on Gentex is a backdoor way to bet on the growth of new car sales. Many value investors, including Mohnish Pabrai and Berkshire Hathaway's new investment managers, have piled into General Motors (GM). This suggests a belief in the growth of new-car volume.
And is Gentex attractively priced? Let's see what $2.1 billion gets you. First, you get a company that has grown sales by an annualized rate of 20% over the past 25 years. Looking back to 2002, Gentex has remained completely debt-free, and over that decade, the company's unlevered return on equity has averaged 15%. Over the past 10 years, sales have grown from $400 million to over $1 billion while profits have moved from $85 million to nearly $180 million. Shares outstanding have declined from 152 million to 145 million in 10 years. In 2003, Gentex began with a $0.03-per-share dividend. Today, shareholders are collecting $0.52 a share, good for a 3% yield. Operating margins are very attractive at 27% of sales.
So why have shares declined nearly 50% in the past year? In a word, Europe. Today, Gentex ships 45% of its mirrors to Europe, compared with 29% back in 2001. Investors have reacted to the slowdown in Europe by dumping shares. But the selloff has severely discounted the superior quality of this business and its products. Perhaps the next six to 12 months will be slower than usual for Gentex because of Europe. But those who are willing to sit tight for the next two to three years are looking a company that is perhaps worth $35 to $50 a share.
Owning Gentex not only gives you an excellent business at a quality price, it also offers a 3% dividend and a free call option on Europe and the rest of the world. It's a scenario that value investors relish. I haven't bought shares yet, as I have a little digging to do, but it's a high probability that I will buy the stock sooner rather than later.


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by Wade Maki
This fall I had the privilege of speaking at a multi-day symposium on free market health care at the University of Nebraska Kearney. Kearney is a small college town in the middle of the Great Plains. Being from a small town in the upper Midwest there was a lot of familiarity such as the friendly people and predominance of pickup trucks. However, the experience of the Great Plains with its big sky and near lack of trees was a new experience. As my host joked, if you ever find yourself in a zombie apocalypse head to Kearney where you can see them coming for miles!
One of the most striking things flying into Kearney was just how much of the land is farmland. Corn is the crop, and with prices holding up the region didn't experience the recession the way most of the country did. Everywhere I went there were brand new trucks reflective of how well things were doing. True to form, the humble Midwest farmers I met would only say "we're doing O.K." when they were clearly in good times.
I met a great many students in my days at Kearney. Some attended the symposium, others were in classes that I visited, and a few I met when we had leftover food to share. For all my difficulty as an instructor keeping students attention I only needed to say "anyone want some free food" and suddenly I was the center of attention.
The symposium consisted of speakers and panels from diverse areas as hospital directors, lawyers, and a philosopher (yours truly). The audience consisted mostly of students many of whom were very concerned with the Affordable Care Act which is also known as "Obamacare" (which is true in that he does care).
One of the most powerful ideas expressed by the students was a sincere concern that they were being forced into paying for the health care of others. This of course isn't new as it is the basis of social security, welfare, and medicare. However, I found their attitudes very familiar as I was a college student in 1993 when President Clinton was pushing his version of health care often called "Hillarycare" (which was true too since she did care). Hearing students complain about having to pay for others care was a mirror of my own feelings back in 1993.
Then as now students find themselves confronted with a conflict between two very Midwestern ideals: The "live and let live" independence and the "we're all in it together" belief in community. These ideas are not unique to the Midwest but have particular attraction there because when your neighbor may be a mile or more away everyone gets used to having more freedom and responsibility for themselves which doesn't lend itself to being forced into anything including a health insurance plan. At the same time there is a recognition of being in it together that we need to work together (be it to survive harsh weather, wild animals, drought, or the lack of anyone else to help when we need it).
While there are other factors in play and perhaps better ways to explain it, there is a real tension between two things most of us value in the health care law. The students do see themselves as part of a community that takes care of its members while also as a free individual that shouldn't be forced to help anyone. We might boil this down to, "well if something bad happens to a neighbor I will choose to help out but don't tell me I have to help!"
Perhaps the best way to see the health care issue is a conflict not of values but of methods. Students want access to affordable quality care but they are skeptical of legal requirements. There was recognition of the problems in the health care market (limited suppliers, no price information until after purchase, no quality comparison information, and no ability to say no when you need care). Each of these factors makes health care a different market than for example a smartphone (where you know the price, features, can compare phones, have different providers to choose from, and can go without a phone). Just as students saw the problems of the market they also saw perils of government (political decisions, dominance of special interests, collusion with big companies, the entrenchment of ineffective programs, and no ability for the individual to opt out).
All in all I learned a lot in my days interacting with students in Kearney. Perhaps most of all how much hasn't changed. Students don't like being told what to do, they do want to help others, and most of all free food is awesome.


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I haven't been very funny lately. I know, I know. you come to this space to find the tongue-in-cheek witticisms to distract you from life, and I have been letting you down. in my defense, things aren't hilarious right now. And, since this space is all about me, it's well, all about me.
What changed, you ask? From the fight with the spider to zombie conversations...what made life So Serious? About a week ago, I realized: This is My Life. Just like that. I actually see it in caps. this is what I live. It is what it is, and it won't really get any better. I won't write the Great American Novel. I won't be rich, or glamorous. I won't rise to the top of the glass ceiling. I know, that doesn't seem that important, and I really don't want to conquer Corporate America. But I still want the option.
When you are young, the world is your oyster. Pearls are there for the taking. At twenty, you aren't a bestselling author..it's ok, there's time. In your forties, Time Is Running Out. You're old. You're washed up. You're irrelevant. Leave it to the youngsters, they have more energy, and why don't you just go and find yourself a nice rocking chair there by the fire? Yeah. NO.
I am usually a fairly positive person, though I bitch a lot. I can always find the "blessing" (how I hate that word..how pious it seems, but really, no better word can be found) in the mess. There is always a silver lining. For example: In 2006, we had a house fire. The structure was still standing, but we lost damn near everything.
We had to move out into a rental for six months, with little more than the clothes on our backs. We found ourselves wandering WalMart at midnight on a Sunday because it was the only store open, and we needed underwear, people! How do you put your life back together after that? We had to buy clothes, and pajamas, and toothbrushes and and and. I was in shock. It was awful. I would never wish the experience upon anyone. BUT. And here is where I am crazy: I was blessed. My faith increased, my family became closer, I learned gratitude. I started over. Now I try to keep only those things that as William Morris put it, "...you find to be useful or believe to be beautiful." And my house was completely redone, from top to bottom. For the first time, I had real bedroom furniture! And dishes that I didn't inherit from my mother! And a home that was completely my style, and brand new everything! And that was the silver lining. I didn't blog about it, the emotions were too raw. In fact, I didn't blog at all for almost two years. That experience helps to keep it all in perspective.
Cut to this last Sunday: I had one of the worst days that I can remember. Right now, JNerd is out of town, along with JBug. It's just me and the two youngers, fending for ourselves. Sunday afternoon, our cat started yowling and lying on the ground. He wouldn't walk, and something was wrong. So to the ER vet we went. Verdict: urinary blockage. LIFE-THREATENING emergency. Exactly the reason that vets exist. The vet needed to do some things that required sedating the cat, so I took the kids to Taco Bell for a quick bite. When I went to start the car, my battery was dead. I had to call AAA to come jump it, and hope that, since it was after hours and I couldn't call the vet, they would be understanding in case I was late. (thankfully, they were, and I wasn't). Because the battery was dead, I had to keep the car running while I picked up the cat. Environment be damned. I wasn't going to get stuck there...I had a sick cat to get the after-hours clinic for overnight treatment. And let me tell you, you haven't lived until you have pumped gas with the engine running for fear if you shut it off you will be stranded.
Finally got home after 9 p.m. and my kids were a wreck. Tucked them in. Made myself a drink and opened my laptop to find: nothing. The screen was black, but I could hear it was on. I tried a whole lot of tech support stuff ("Did you turn it off and one again??") but it was unresponsive.
So, a recap.. cat, battery, computer. It comes in threes right?
My point, people, and I DO have one... that day sucked. The next day sucked as I had to get up at the buttcrack of dawn to get the cat from the Night ER vet to my regular vet. Thankfully, I had my husband's car. Once I did that, I had to get my van to Costco so that they could explain to me why my battery had failed after less than two years. Turns out Costco doesn't install or remove batteries, but it doesn't matter because we don't have yours in stock right now anyway ma'am and there's an auto store down the street that can probably help you, have a nice day. Well. Fine.
I drove my van, which by some miracle started, to Pep Boys (who I cannot say enough nice things about, you guys!) Bought my battery. They took pity on the poor married lady who was abandoned by her husband for greener conventions, and took one look at the small ragamuffin in tow who was heat-bedraggled, and had me in and out of there in fifteen minutes! Fifteen minutes! New battery, yay! And, Costco gave me a full refund on my battery that failed.
When I finally got home, and was reflecting upon the events of the last coupIe of days, and it was all feeling a bit like being pecked to death by ducks. Then it hit me... (here is where I get all treacly) I really am blessed. Talk about First World Problems! We had enough money and resources to treat our sick cat. I have an auto club so that I don't get stranded when I have a problem. I have an extra car so that I could get my cat and not rely upon the kindness of my friends. I have enough money to get a new battery, and the resources to get it installed. I am rich compared to much of the world. That thought shut me up. I really have nothing to complain about. No one is dying. These are all transitional worries. I realize how obnoxious this sounds. Who really appreciated when Dad said, "Eat your peas, there are children starving in Africa?" And honestly, I got smacked when I once retorted, "Well, then, send the peas to THEM!" (made sense at the time) I am not telling you to eat your peas. I'm really not. I am telling myself. I am reminding myself that though I just turned forty_ahem ...life is not over. Life is still beautiful. My body may be changing, and my youth may be fading, but life is still good. Life is always good. Sometimes I just forget it for a bit.
As I write this, the cat is still at the vet, and will probably be ok. It will just be expensive. And I hate having to spend the money. But I love the fact that I have the resources to make the decisions that are required. I am not loaded monetarily by any means. It will be a stretch and we may eat cheese sandwiches for dinner for a bit. (more or less) but I am rich, in all the ways that count. And that revelation? Is priceless.


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For adults, obesity may increase the risk of catching whooping cough, a new study from Australia suggests.
In the study, obese adults were 50 percent more likely to become infected with whooping cough over a 10-month period compared with those who were not obese or overweight.
Adults were also more likely to catch whooping cough if they had asthma, or were taking medications or supplements, the study found.
Doctors may need to consider targeting adults with these characteristics for whooping cough vaccinations, the researchers said.
Whooping cough, or pertussis, typically causes the most severe disease in young children, but in recent years, there has been increasing diagnosis of pertussis in adults in some countries, including Australia and the United States.
The bacterial infection also known as pertussis can be very serious for children under the age of 12 months. The biggest outbreak is currently in Washington State, where there were more than 3,000 cases through July 14. NBC's Robert Bazell reports.
CDC: Whooping cough epidemic worst in 50 years
In the new study, Bette Liu, of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and colleagues analyzed information from more than 263,000 adults ages 45 and older, who were followed for an average of 10 months between 2006 and 2008.
During the study period, 205 adults were diagnosed with pertussis, and 12 people were hospitalized.
Adults were just as likely to catch pertussis at any age, but those ages 65 and over were more likely to be hospitalized.
Among those with body mass indexes (BMIs) over 30, the incidence of whooping cough was 133 cases per 100,000 people, compared with 82 cases per 100,000 people for those with a BMI under 25. (People with BMIs between 20 and 25 are considered normal weight; those with BMIs over 30 are considered obese.)
Those with asthma and those taking medications were 60 percent more likely to have pertussis compared with those without asthma, or those not taking medications.
Diagnosing pertussis in adults can be difficult because the disease's symptoms such as coughing and fever, occur commonly in other conditions. It is likely that more people were infected than diagnosed, the researchers said.
It is not clear whether people who are obese, have asthma or take medications are truly more predisposed to pertussis, or whether these people are simply more likely to go to the doctor to be diagnosed, the researchers noted.
Obesity is known to predispose adults to other respiratory infections, such as pneumonia and the flu, and so it is possible it also increases the risk of contracting pertussis, the researchers said.
The study was published online July 17 in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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Mutual fund firms are offering more open access to their websites, a report by Corporate Insight found.
2011, 53% of firms offered unrestricted access to at least some of the material on their websites. Now, more than three-quarters of firms offer public access to some portion of their site.
Corporate Insight found only four major firms — OppenheimerFunds, American Funds, Invesco and Franklin Templeton — limit access to their websites to registered advisors only. But while other firms don't require registration to access everything, there are limits on what they share.
One way firms manage what is visible on their site is by requiring advisors to log in for access to profile and account-specific content, leaving access to research and product information available to anyone. Others may mark restricted content with an icon to show users it's unavailable. Corporate Insight found 28% of firms use this strategy as a way to show advisors what they're missing.
Fidelity, however, effectively has two sites: one that hides registered content for unaffiliated or logged-out users, and a complete site for advisors who log in.
Corporate Insight noted that firms restrict access to information on their websites for a variety of reasons, from protecting proprietary sales tools to protecting themselves from regulatory enforcement.
One thing that many of the firms analyzed don't offer, though, is an explicit description for unregistered users of the features they could have access to. Corporate Insight pointed to American Century and Putnam as some of just a few firms that listed the benefits and features of affiliating with the firm.
Putnam is also the first firm to allow advisors to sign in with LinkedIn, the way many sites allow users to sign in with Facebook. Advisors who choose to do so grant Putnam access to information on their profile.
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Although Shalelu Andosana is something of a mystery to the residents of Sandpoint, she's certainly one of the town's most admired defenders. She doesn't actually live in town, but she sometimes spends the night at the Rusty Dragon free of charge, thanks to her long friendship with Ameiko Kaijitsu. Everyone in town knows that Shalelu is something of a loner and prefers to spend her time wandering in and exploring the wilderness around Sandpoint. She periodically vanishes from the region for weeks or even months at a time to visit friends elsewhere in Varisia (particularly, it's said, near Hook Mountain or up north near the elven village of Crying Leaf), but she never fails to return to Sandpoint. No one quite understands why she keeps coming back. When asked why, she merely says, "Someone's got to keep an eye on you all." Her timely reports of goblin activity have helped save folk from ambushes or warned the militia of possible attacks on the town or the surrounding farmlands numerous times. Yet in recent days, Sheriff Hemlock has begun taking a more active role in patrolling the surrounding area, and his militia is better trained now than ever before, which means that Shalelu's aid in keeping an eye on the hinterlands is growing less and less necessary. She actually seems relatively pleased with this development, however, as though she's proud that Sandpoint is finally starting to look after itself rather than disappointed at not being needed any longer. She has even started hinting that she's thinking of taking a long journey away from Sandpoint sometime in the future, but whenever she is pressed for details, she just shrugs and changes the topic. Of the four key NPCs in the Jade Regent Adventure Path, Shalelu is the most distant and her motives are easily the most mysterious, but she otherwise seems friendly and helpful enough. (from Jade Regent Players Guide, p. 11)


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The only reason I'm going to show you how to dice an onion is that I was an embarrassingly advanced age (relatively speaking) before I finally figured it out myself. And I want to share that with humanity! I don't want you to be clueless like I was for so many wretched years.
Start by cutting the onion in half from root to tip.
Then peel off the outer layer.
Then make several small, vertical slices all the way through the onion.
Next, rotate the onion 90 degrees and slice again, creating a dice.
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NEW YORK, July 28 (UPI) -- Millionaires say they are not so financially comfortable they can do whatever they want, when they want to, a U.S. survey found.
UBS Wealth Management Americas surveyed 4,450 investors with $1 million or more in investable assets and found that most of them said they didn't feel rich, the New York Post reported.
Just 30 percent of respondents said they felt wealthy -- most said they won't consider themselves wealthy until they have at least $5 million in assets.
About 80 percent of respondents said part of the reason why they do not feel wealthy is because they are offering financial assistance to their adult children, grandchildren and older parents, the survey found.
"Investors are telling us that wealth isn't just about money. It's about being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it," said Emily Pachuta, head of Investor Insights, UBS Wealth Management Americas. "if you ask, 'What is wealthy?' we observe that it's about having no financial constraints -- holding a lot of cash, taking care of family."


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Bethany Snyder of Thomasville, Pa., was just 13-years-old when she attended Pathways to Your Future: Exploring STEM Careers, a program to encourage young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at Penn State York in 2003. No one is more surprised than she is that at age 20 and a science major at Penn State York, she will be helping to present one of the workshops when the 15th annual program takes place at 8:45 a.m. Friday, May 6, in the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center at the campus. Registration begins at 8 a.m.
"When I was in seventh grade myself I participated in this program; it is so nice to see it go full circle for me," said Snyder.
Snyder was selected to attend the program back then as one of the attendees from Dover Middle School.
"I was naturally good at science and that's why I was one of the girls selected to attend," she said. "I wasn't always interested in science but the program was exciting and I remember feeling very special to be on a college campus for a day when I was in seventh grade."
Snyder will be presenting at the workshop The Science of Color in Cosmetics, one of the most popular at the conference, along with Fulgentius Lugemwa, assistant professor of chemistry at Penn State York; Dean Putt, a research scientist in chemistry; and his daughter Allison Putt, a chemistry student at Lebanon Valley College.
Snyder laughs when she remembers that this was a workshop she wanted to attend back in 2003, but it was full.
"I'm still a little bitter about that but this year I can live vicariously through the girls and I've had the opportunity to practice doing the workshop and making nail polish," she said.
While a student at York, Snyder has served as a research assistant in chemistry to Lugemwa and shares her love of science every day. Snyder's interest in science took a few years to grow since those middle school days but she now loves her major and will be moving on to University Park in the fall to complete her degree.
Cell-A-Bration, Video Haiku, Dazzling Database, Making "Scents" of Biology, Getting Physical with Math and Science, DNA Detectives, The Science of Color in Cosmetics, Girls Go Graphic, and Makin' Tracks are just a few of the workshops being offered this year.
Seventh grade girls, their teachers, and some parents representing 26 schools -- public, private, charter, and cyber -- will take part in this career awareness program. Some 308 people will be participating in the free program.
Pathways to Your Future offers girls the opportunity to explore a variety of job related fields in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Participants can attend three workshops from a list of 24 covering a wide range of topics. The program also provides teachers with information to guide young women toward career opportunities in these fields.
Pathways to Your Future: Exploring STEM Careers is sponsored by Penn State York, the Alice J. Whiteley family, Exelon Nuclear, Haas Printing Co. Inc., Yorktowne Graphics, and a Pullo Family Grant.


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The Quarry bothers were sexually abused in the 1970's, but did they did not recognize how they were harmed by the abuse until the late 2000's. They filed suit within three years of making the causal connection. In 2012, the California Supreme Court ruled that the delayed discovery provision did not apply to the Quarrys because the language of the statute was not explicitly retroactive. Consequently, their statute of limitations expired when the civil window closed in 2003. In effect, the court ruled that the law required them to file suit before they even knew they had been harmed.
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New Bloomfield Toy Drive Still Needs Donations
NEW BLOOMFIELD - "Santa for Students" holiday toy drive organizers are still looking for donations before the program ends Tuesday. Durham School Services sponsors the second annual toy drive, and the proceeds will go to families with children in the New Bloomfield R-III school district. You can still drop off donations at the following locations:
- Bill's Service Station
- Midway 66
- Bank Star One
- Blooming Gifts
- Little Flowers Daycare
- Munchkin Land Daycare
- Holts Summit Pizza Hut
- Cameron's Cafe
- Dos Primos
- New Bloomfield schools and churches
This year's chairperson Jennifer Garrett said the drive collected 263 gifts in its first year last year. Those gifts helped 15 families during the holidays. Garrett said this year's toy drive has already collected 350 to 400 gifts so far. Local clubs and organizations have also donated hundreds of dollars to the effort.
Garrett said the drive encourages donors to give clothing items and blankets as well as toys. She also hopes to collect gifts for older children because last year saw more donations geared toward toddlers and younger children.
If you would like to donate, you can do so until participating businesses close Tuesday.


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